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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' exception: The Fifth and Tenth Doctors both have only minor vision problems. David Tennant admitted in an interview that he had the Doctor wear glasses to give children with glasses a hero.

** In the crossover short ''Time Crash'', the 10th Doctor explicitly states that neither he nor the 5th Doctor need glasses to correct their vision -- [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses|they only wear them to look clever]]. The 1st Doctor occasionally did wear proper glasses to improve his ailing vision.

* Without this trope, the famous ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Time Enough at Last" would have lost some of its zing. It's almost reverse [[Fridge Horror]], though, because you realize that eventually he'll think to stumble his way into an optometrist's and find a pair that works reasonably well. He could also have just found himself a magnifying glass.

** Parodied on ''[[Futurama]]'' with ''The Scary Door'', where the last man on Earth has just lost his glasses.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Persona 4]]'' makes the characters wear special glasses while in the TV world so they can see through the fog. {{spoiler|These glasses also work when Inaba is covered in fog.}} The Main Character is a [[Double Subversion]] of this. (Once because he actually can see through the fog a little even without them and twice because it's not enough for him to not need them.)

* Seemingly averted in ''[[Siren (video game)|Siren]]: Blood Curse''. It is implied that Sam's glasses do help his vision, {{spoiler|but they break at one point in the game and he seems to have no particular vision problems despite never getting a replacement, although the Shibito curse may have a part in that}}.

* Subverted in the (now defunct) webcomic ''[http://thosedestined.pensandtales.com/?date=20021205 Those Destined]'' :

{{quote|'''Mook:''' I can see your strength... and your weakness.

'''Rae:''' I'm near-sighted, idiot. }}

* Subverted in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Tedd Verres's eyesight is normal, but he wears a pair of [[Nerd Glasses|thick glasses]] (filled with high-tech gadgetry) while in public to make himself seem less effeminate, though at the cost of making him look more nerdish. When [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-21 he is first seen without them by Grace, he initially tries to claim he is this].

* Gus in ''[[Recess]]'' is apparently blind without his glasses. He even says "I'm blind!" when he accidentally steps on and breaks them. What's ridiculous is that when he finds that he's considered cool without them, he ditches them, sacrificing sight for popularity. The viewer is given a scene or two from his point of view: the images are blurred, but not even close to the severity of the blur of people with glasses in real life. It's only a slight blur, and the "lines" between objects are still distinguishable.

* Chow in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' can't see without his [[Cool Shades]], as we learned when he tried using the [[Eye Beams|Pig Talisman]].

'''Chow:''' Maybe. }}

:: Of course, it's been established that it's very hard to aim the eye beams of the Pig Talisman because, you know, you've got red-hot beams of heat shooting out of your eyes. Coupled with Chow's need of glasses, he was never going to be a perfect shot. Whenever his glasses are taken off any other time, he seems perfectly fine without them.

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